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In the twen­ty-first cen­tu­ry, it’s become eas­i­er than ever to explore one’s fam­i­ly his­to­ry — but even with an increased abil­i­ty to trav­el, ana­lyze DNA, and explore archival mate­r­i­al, how close can we real­ly get to under­stand­ing our ori­gins, and why they mat­ter? Authors Esther Safran Foer (I Want You to Know We’re Still Here) and Kei­th Gessen (A Ter­ri­ble Coun­try) recount jour­neys to their ances­tral homes of Ukraine and Rus­sia, respec­tive­ly, as they grap­ple with how the past informs our under­stand­ing of self and home. Join us as we explore a cen­tu­ry of per­son­al Jew­ish his­to­ry in a con­ver­sa­tion mod­er­at­ed by Tablet Mag­a­zine​’s Stephanie Butnick.

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Signed copies of Esther Safran Foer’s *I Want You To Know We’re Still Here" are avail­able from Pol­i­tics & Prose here: https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9780525575986.

Co-presented by Jewish Book Council, the Jewish Museum, and Tablet Magazine